43, the top of the cloud mountain
Zhao Mingjun's excitement lasted less than ten minutes before he was completely quiet.
Not only Zhao Mingjun, but I, Qiao Wei, and Chang Le didn't even dare to let out the atmosphere, because we had already walked along the transparent bridge to a hundred meters in the air! The worst thing is that we have to look down at Xiangxia, the road is always transparent, and we have to judge where the road ahead is by the snow that has not fallen on the ground, and whether there is a turn.
All of us must maintain a high degree of mental concentration, especially Zhao Mingjun, who is at the forefront, if he falls, then he will definitely be the first.
I was relatively safer walking on the Zuihou side, but it was also because of this safety that I had more energy to pay attention to how far away we were from the clouds in the air, how high we were above the ground, and the result of looking at these things was to further intensify the fear of the altitude in my heart, which made my heart beat faster with every step.
After about an hour of continuous progress, the slope of the transparent bridge increased significantly, and the wind blowing around us increased significantly, which not only made it difficult for us to maintain our balance, but also caused the falling snowflakes to be blown away quickly, making it difficult for us to determine the way forward.
We had to lower the center of our body, change to crawling, and little by little we carefully groped our way ahead.
In this way, we kept climbing and climbing, and because of the high concentration and fear, none of us noticed how long the bottom was crawling in the air, anyway, the surroundings were getting darker and darker, and the ground was completely invisible, and the mountains in front of us were getting closer and closer, and victory was just around the corner.
After walking further on, all of a sudden the bridge under our feet began to show its true appearance, it was wider than we thought, almost a meter. At the same time as the bridge was revealed, the wind that was still raging around us stopped and the snow stopped falling, as if everything had come to a standstill.
The mountain was more than a hundred meters in front of us, and the clouds were surrounding the foot of the mountain, and there was nothing to see under the bridge, and we seemed to have entered a shijie on the clouds in an instant.
In ancient Chinese myths and stories, words such as "Heavenly Realm" and "Heavenly Palace" were mentioned many times, but now it seems that it is not the ancient people's yearning for the sky, but that the gods really appeared in the sky.
I don't care if it's another hallucination created by the direct stimulation of my brain by the moon reading through electrical signals, since I've already made it here, I must go to the mountains to see it.
We can see the road, the wind has stopped, all the obstacles are gone, and we naturally walked much faster than before on the Zuihou section.
When my feet finally stepped on the cloud mountain, my heart that had been hanging could finally be put down. The other three were in a similar state to me, and Zhao Mingjun was lying on the rocks at the foot of the mountain, laughing and panting for breath.
"It's finally up! It's incredible when I think about it now! Chang Le sat on the ground and sighed.
Incredible.
He used it very accurately, especially for me, it was like a dream.
A year ago, I was just an ordinary person who opened a restaurant and wrote novels, a month ago I was just a little detective who followed a Mr. Yin and Yang to set up a formation, catch ghosts, and make money, and a few days ago I just got on a yacht and came to a desert island to cure my strange disease.
But now, I was wearing the armor of an Amurasu samurai, with a samurai sword hanging from my waist, and five Blood Taisui creatures on my back, and at my feet was a mountain suspended in the sky, and there was a palace of gods on this mountain.
I can't really think of any other words to describe how I'm feeling right now other than "incredible."
"yes, it's incredible!" I finally agreed with Changle from the bottom of my heart on one thing.
The four of us rested at the foot of the mountain for a while, recovering as much as we could from the energy we had expended along the way. Qiao Wei also gave me a blood pudding from Zuihou to prevent me from suddenly falling ill at the juncture of Zuihou.
After the state returned to about 70%, the four of us started to climb the mountain.
There are plants on this mountain, although not as lush as the forests on the island, but there are flowers, grasses, trees and forests, and I even saw some rodents such as pine trees on the way.
Halfway up the mountain, we found a small shrine with a statue of a dog about knee-high.
Zhao Mingjun squatted in front of the shrine and looked at it carefully for a while, and then said, "This is おおかみ (OOKAMI)!" ”
"Is it a 'wolf'?" I know a little bit of Japanese, so I know what Zhao Mingjun means by speaking Japanese, but I don't think the puppy in the shrine is a wolf.
Zhao Mingjun turned around and said: "In Japanese mythology, there is a special reverence for wolves, which can be seen from the pronunciation of 'wolf' in Japanese!" ”
"I know that the pronunciation of 'great god' is the same as 'wolf'." I said.
"So the dog spirit enshrined in this shrine should be the most feared god in ancient Japan, although it looks different from the jungle wolf we are familiar with, but this should be carved based on the Japanese wolf, and the age should be quite old." Zhao Mingjun said as he looked up and looked around: "We are now integrated into history!" ”
"So Kaguya Palace is guarded by a dog god?" I continued to ask.
"No, no, no, it's not that relationship!" Zhao Mingjun shook his head, and then explained: "Tsukiyomi, Amaterasu, and Susanoo, they are the main gods in charge of the heavens, earth, sun and moon, but the dog spirits are not, they are more like animal guardian spirits born according to people's subjective conjectures. ”
"Does that sound like a ghostly wish?" I asked, glancing back at Qiao Wei.
Qiao Wei shook his head lightly and said: "I do ghost things Mr. also belongs to the type that does not seek much understanding, I only know what it is, I don't know why, I have never thought about what the principle of ghost wishes will be, or what ghosts, immortals, and demons are." ”
"You're right, you didn't think about it!" Zhao Mingjun said to Qiao Wei, and then pushed down the glasses on the bridge of his nose, "This is also the purpose of our coming for God this time, if we meet Yueyu, we can get all the answers we want to know through her, about this shijie, and the answers to all the difficult puzzles on shijie, naturally including ghosts!" ”
A small shrine dedicated to the dog spirit led to Zhao Mingjun's lofty ambitions, and I don't know what more high-end ambitions he will have when he sees Yueyu's palace. However, Zhao Mingjun's words also touched my heart a little, strong curiosity is a stubborn disease that I can't get rid of in my life, and what I can get from reading every month is undoubtedly a medicine to cure my stubborn disease.
We didn't delay much here in the shrine, and Zhao Mingjun's explanation of the dog spirit and the great god was also carried out on the road.
Continuing on Xiangshang, we passed through a very familiar road, which was exactly the same as the artificial stone road we had encountered on the island before, and the stone road was smooth like a mirror. It's just that the hanging hill is dark and there is no obvious light source for the road to reflect.
Near the top of the hill we pass through a stone archway, followed by a huge mountain platform, and then a narrow road back to the sheep's intestines. All of this is surprisingly similar to the topography of the island, except that the vegetation on the mountains is not lush and the surrounding scenery is not the same.
"It's the same road as on the pilgrimage island! The buildings and the ground are all very similar! I suspect that we didn't go to the sky, but we simply entered a space-time tunnel and went back to the past! Chang Le said with a relaxed face, feeling like he was joking, but his words really made me think deeply.
Is this really heavenly?
Does that transparent bridge really exist?
Could it all be an illusion? We're still on the island at all, and we're getting closer to the battlefield where A.Amaterasu's samurai and German vampires are fighting?
I couldn't help but slow down at the thought of this, but also remind others to be careful.
However, my fears soon proved unwarranted, and the road we entered did not come to an end quickly, but spiraled all the way to the top of the mountain, and even steps appeared at the back, like a man-made spiral staircase.
The four of us walked up the stairs to the top of the hill, and a huge palace appeared in front of us!
This palace will never give people a sense of grandeur, it is too dilapidated and vicissitudes. Half of the gates of the palace were gone, the windows were riddled with holes, and the two large pillars in front of the main gate were all discolored. Perhaps it is precisely because of this dilapidated that this palace is full of stories.
"It's not easy to finally get here!" I looked at the dilapidated palace gate and sighed.
And just as I finished speaking, suddenly the whole top of the hill shook violently, and the huge palace swayed from side to side, and the wooden beams and tiles fell from the palace one after another, making a rumbling sound!
"What's going on?!!!" I shouted and turned back to ask Zhao Mingjun.
"No...... I don't know ......" Zhao Mingjun stammered two words, and then his eyes widened and froze in place.
I quickly turned my head and looked at Zhao Mingjun's line of sight.
The front entrance of the palace had completely collapsed, and a circular stone platform had gradually risen in the midst of the ruins!
The stone platform is exquisite, in stark contrast to the surrounding ruins! The stone was surrounded by lifelike animals, and the wolf facing us was particularly well carved, with eyes staring at us as if they were alive.
"Thunder! There is yin! Pay attention!! Qiao Wei suddenly shouted, and then ran in front of me in a few steps and waved away Jiashi, who was ready to fight.
Chang Le was the same, frowning as if he was facing a great enemy.
There is no doubt that we still need to go through the zuihou difficulty before we can "obtain the true scriptures"!